Museum Loan NetworkMassachusetts Institute of Technology
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Museum Loan Network Directory Introduction
Development began in 1996 on a key element of the Museum Loan Network: the MLN Directory. Its primary goal is to create a practical means of indentifying art and objects of cultural heritage available for long-term loan. Many of these objects are included in the directory as a result of survey grants awarded to institutions. Institutions may also request that their objects be included within the data base without receiving a survey grant.The MLN utilizes standards already developed in the field to promote compatibility. Both the Categories for the Description of Works of Art, a combined initiative of the Getty Art History Information Project and the College Art Association, and the Art and Achitecture Thesaurus play a major role. The technological components of the database are developed at MIT's Academic Media Production Services.
By bringing to the public information about objects that have been lying in collection storage, the directory not only helps to bring these objects into public view, but provides important new information about collections that will aid in their research.
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Museum Loan Network
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
265 Massachusetts Avenue, N52-401
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Phone: 617.252.1888 Fax: 617.252.1899
Email: loanet@mit.edu
Administered by MIT Office of the Arts.
Funded by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts.